PPP CEC may approve package on 24th

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples Party has convened meeting of its central executive committee (CEC) here at Zardari House on Saturday morning most likely to give final approval to the draft of the much talked about constitutional package.

The meeting would be presided over by PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and besides the CEC members the chief ministers of Sindh and Balochistan, federal as well as provincial ministers would attend the meeting at Zardari House, the spokesman said.

The political analysts were associating great significance to the meeting as it would have main focus on the judges issue and the political damage being faced by the party due to delay in the restoration of the judges.

Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farooq H. Naek talking to media outside Zardari House said that the draft of the constitutional package was about to be finalized in the next day or so and the same could be tabled in Parliament before the budget session.

The sources in the party disclosed that the package contained the curtailment of Presidential powers, abolish the National Security Council and other constitutional amendments aimed at restoring the 1973 status of the constitution.

These sources further disclosed that besides the fixation of the term for Chief Justice of Pakistan the constitutional reforms package would also curtail the powers of the Chief Justice to take suo motu action on his own, and powers regarding transfer and constitution of the benches would also be taken back from the Chief Justice.